Friends welcome back to the

to the Ramsontar podcast John Eldridge in the studio this week with Alan

Arnold on our team and we've got something really fun and I think kind of

exciting and hopeful for you over a couple of podcasts here we actually get a number

of requests about the whole realm of

creativity and writing. Specifically, people will ask us, you know, hey, how did you get started

as writers or what's your writing process like?

But more often it's a little broader than that.

People will just say, hey, I'm looking for a little more creativity in my life.

I feel like I do have something to offer I have a message or I have an art that I want to bring or I want to grow in those capacities and how would you guys recommend you know I develop those capacities in me and we have a new

resource on that that you're gonna love but before we get into that I want to

let you get to know Alan a little bit more.

A number of you've heard Alan on the podcast now for some years, but

Alan is the director over all of our content here at Ransom Tard and therefore the producer of the podcast, but also the various film projects,

curriculums, book launches, all the different things that we put out here to the world by way of bringing

our message out.

And Alan's got an interesting background.

Alan, how did you get into the world of words and message and creativity?

My story started really with creativity early on through story and so as a young boy just captured by stories of adventure,

stories of the unexpected.

I can remember reading comic books 5, 7, 8. I loved comic books. I did too and the

superhero stories, the fantastical, just drew me in and the heroic, the way that good

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